[WikiEN-l] Another admin burnout

[David Gerard]

On 20/12/2007, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 5:00 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> > There's a difference between people chosing to leave the project, and
> > a project where the usual mode of leaving for experienced participants
> > is an antagonistic conflict incident blowing up.

> Not to say I'm not concerned, but is that really the "usual" mode of
> leaving? Certainly it can get a lot of attention, and it's easier to keep
> track of, but I'm not sure where the numbers would be, on that one.


Not even close, IMO. Most people just go and do other things instead.


> Also, if people are exploding, I'd imagine that resolving the immediate
> issue which led to the explosion is only treating a symptom. Since they
> probably exploded after a good deal of building up stress, the source of
> building stress may be our greater concern. Band-aids can work wonders, but
> they won't solve underlying problems.
> ...trouble, of course, few seem to agree on what those underlying problems
> are.


Oh yeah. I'm not saying it isn't a problem, I'm saying it's not typical.


- d.